1 hour ago, Herbie6590 said:

An item in today’s Mail Sport quoting Mark Atkins and me…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13098499/ON-ROAD-Blackburns-plight-death-1-000-cuts-look-avoid-relegation-League-One.html

I always struggle with an article that starts by talking about Jack Walker and Kenny Dalglish. It in my opinion, alludes that as fans we expect to be at that level still, which we all know needs oil barons money these days.

We simply want owners that care, have a plan and a desire to improve the club. I'm glad Herbie corrected Atkins on the lazy anology that we would be staring down the barrel without Venkys.

I find so much of what is going on there absolutely mental. Kompany basically bosses the giggling nervous owner (hedge fund manager) around and gets whatever he wants.

I speak to mates who are Dingles and they say he has earned another year after last season. So they want to judge him whilst smashing the Championship again as they have the strongest squad?!?

He gets given incredible amounts of cash for players by insisting they will ALL increase in value. It just does not happen like that in the Premier League, in struggling sides not many players excel. The owner has fallen hook, line and sinker for all of Kompanys big talk.

4 hours ago, AllRoverAsia said:

It looks like Pears would have saved the equaliser but for Hedges being in his way and also deflecting the ball from it's original path.

1 and 1/2 minutes of highlights,  no replays, probably free from the EFL to the club

 

He would have done. Pears almost seemed to save it on the line then knock it over the line with his trailing leg just for good measure. We will just add it to the ever growing list of awful/weak as piss goals conceded.

You won't have many clubs that at 2-0 up after 20 mins you would take a point at that time. Should some guts in the second half which was pleasing. 

Big Sam must have a short memory or be a bit skint to think of coming back. He just needs to flick through a few pages of his own book for a reminder ... Jerome Anderson and the list of players to sign.

Venkys refusing him the chance to leave to the Middle East then sacking him a short while later. To name just two!

1 minute ago, jim mk2 said:

Blimey, there's some dewy-eyed romantic view of the Tomasson era on here when the reality is he's left the club in the middle of a relegation fight after a calamitous sequence of results. Ambition and optimism and a good personality are fine qualities but a coach also has to know to organise a defence properly and set up a team not to give away soft goals. Tomasson was a busted flush IMO, canny Championship managers had him and Rovers worked out in the second half of last season

 

 

Agree with most of that, the last sentence if we are being fair was opposition managers realised we had no squad and couldn't really make any telling subs.

In true Rovers style with getting fees we probably got offered compo from Sweden 2 weeks ago for JDT to become their national manager. He leaves today with us paying him.

11 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Is it normal to have the Thursday off before a huge Saturday game against a relegation rival?

Either Andy Bayes or Elliott Jackson stated on twitter it was a standard practice if no midweek game. It certainly raised my eyebrows in view of current form/ defensive frailties!

I shouldn't be surprised, I shouldn't even have apathy but applause has to go to the ownership for tricking me into thinking we may just may have sorted something regarding the manager by 2150hrs on Thursday before a huge game on Saturday.

I'm clearly stupid.

Call me a cynic but didn't the club statement come out about 30 minutes after Sky Sports News reported issues on the deal. The statement wasn't for the fans, it was to kick the can down the road for the national eyes.

21 minutes ago, robfranlong81 said:

Kyle McFadzean said in his interview with Radio Lancs that it took a week to sort a free transfer from Coventry.  No fee involved, yet it seemingly takes forever to get anything approved. If this was any other business then people would be fired for sheer incompetence. 

 

It's things like this that frustrates the hell out of me when people call out vocal fans who are anti the ownership. The evidence is there from the horses mouth, this carry on in a simple trade should be a red flag to anybody.

8 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

A lot are thinking 'What is the point?' once again.

It's the dangerous territory of being so vocal about being a trading club. The players feel like contractors as does the manager and as fans we know that we don't have people in the hierarchy allowed or competent enough to deliver it. So it all becomes a never ending cycle of let downs.

I'd have hoped there was an Waggott, Broughton, Tomasson sit down last night / today to discuss how the hell we address this nose dive and drag ourselves back on track.

You actually know that the three will just be ignoring each other, with Waggott and Broughton enjoying the gravy train for as long as they can.

To follow a club that has no structure, no accountability, no long term plan is absolute torture. The owners have lost thousands of fans forever in the last decade, they are destined to lose more in the coming months.

I cannot think of any manager missing a pre game press conference without being ill. I'm pretty sure it's a football stipulation they have to do it. I've known them to be too pissed off to do a post game presser but a pre game, I can't see that happening too often.

I'm certainly not writing off any of the signings, I always give players a chance, probably too much of a chance.

My angst over the window is we have sold a player for a club record fee. Think about that for a second, a club record fee doesn't pay bills it is meant to propel the club. Palace didn't bid for the first time yesterday, we had a chance at a good window and getting players in to work with the manager to start next season on the front foot. What we did was have a window of patching.

It's ended up a shrug of a transfer window. I hate the transfer window to be honest and the last minute nature of it, I think the money men at the club love the chaos and excuses it brings.

We have added to a woefully under performing defence with numbers but how well they will bed in is anybodies guess.

Midfield is weaker than when we started the window. Topped off by losing our best player. 

We've loaned in a striker for a few months, from what I can gather he will go back if the owners don't sanction the fee in the summer. Reasonable to assume his loan fee is funded by Ennis's exit fee.

Suppose we've got a limp to the end of the season, with a summer of freebies and wondering if the manager is going to quit to look forward to! 

2 minutes ago, TugaysMarlboro said:

Ok Elliott....but you've fallen for the "look at the shiny" trick. The replacements, what about the replacements??

Whilst I shouldn't feel sorry for the local reporter who brings next to no insider info. This lad clearly spends his day scrolling twitter for his info and clearly has no "in" at all. 

6 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Lukas Jensen from Lincoln - danish GK, just seen on FB, apparently interested.

Isn't he the son of the the rather rotund ex-dingle?

1 minute ago, Bethnal said:

Refusing a transfer fee for Rothwell because your arbitrary value hasn’t been met and letting him leave for free? Fine, maybe that’s caution-to-the-wind optimism for promotion.

Doing it again for Brereton? Can just about argue similar.

Letting three of our bigger earners leave for free in the summer? Okay, budget restraints and upcoming financial sustainability, plus the need for more players in.

Cutting the wage bill by pretty much the same amount gained from letting those players leave. Well, things must be really bad, but I guess I can just about see the logic, short-term.

Selling your prized asset at the first opportunity? Okay, we need to strengthen, it’s really sad, but we are where we are.

Allowing your recruitment team to line up as many as five transfers before sending your minion to put a freeze on all recruitment that requires a fee, because you are so hamstring by your - alleged - financial impropriety that the Indian court system needs to give you permission to send any money anywhere…

We - as a fanbase - have accepted a lot and it appears many more are willing to swallow more. We shouldn’t. This needs to stop and it has done for a long time, but this has to be the tipping point. They need to be hounded out of the club, embarrassed in their own country and investigated thoroughly. We need to act.

Best and fairest post on here for a long time!

Beyond Adam Wharton not leaving today, there are ZERO excuses to not have some squad improvements in by the end of day. The club has previously borrowed money from sources outwith of India and can do so in lieu of Wharton monies. 

ZERO EXCUSES!!!

At pretty much any other club outside of the Premier League the sale of your starlet, whilst being a kick in the nads, would bring a sense of optimism about what potentially exciting signings may arrive and the path you may follow.

Here it brings a sense of dread of just how much we are going to be screwed over.

Gally has been superb.

Having watched that first half my only request in the second half is SHOOT. That keeper looks a liability and we know all about liability goalkeepers!